Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1887-12-22

to their own road as the only through
route to heaven, without change of
cars or re-check of baggage at Council
Bluffs. Possibly, to use his own lam
guage, "There is such a diversity of
opinion between them, l desire to keep
the tender minds of the orphans free
from the excitement which clash
ing doctrine and sectarian controver-
sy are so apt to produce"
Wise Girard! Prudent Girard. In
spired Girard!
If the city council of Philadelphia
should follow the advice of the Su-
preme court, and select as teachers
laymen distinguished not only for
learning and talent, but for piety and
elevated virtue and holy lives and
character" what more could be gain
ed by the employment of ecclesias-
tics who might possess all these de-
sired accomplishments? But how
much might be lost by selecting &C.
clesiastics as ecclesiastics who might
possess none Of the characteristics
above described? ] have hazy and
indistinct recollection Of having met
few such ecclesiastics travelling
through this vale of tears.
Again, say: Wise Girard! Prudent
Girard! Happy College! Blessed Or
phans!
His life and character are stamped
on the will, upon the creation of his
own experience and reflection, and
his views have, with a wisdom and
fidelity worthy of praise, been i'm
pressed upon the administration OF
the College. And here it may be
proper to observe that no one who
has studied his living principle or
dying injunction can doubt that SO
far from designing to render Girard
College the source Of intellectual in
struction alone, irrespective Of moral
truth Though that is impossible, for
the essential essence of truth is virtue,
and wisdom and goodness are of
necessity one,) his primary and main
design was to elevate by instruction
the moral character of our youth
"a foe to God was ne'er true friend
to man."
If the legacy bore different con
struction, and admitted a different
purpose, no good man could rejoice
over it. acknowledge is power" bu,
power is not always blessing, either
to the possessor or to society. "They
who know the most must mourn the
deepest DER the fatal truth" The
tree of knowledge is not that of life
The light of false education is the
illumination of te mple by its own
conhagration, which, while it lights
consumes and desolates it.
The sinister and one sided educa
ton that negleots the moral nature o.
the pupil, leaves that nature mis-
shapen, depraved and unsafe to hi.
fellow man.
Better that the soil be barren a.
the bare rock than it should be cult
waited to bring forth the deadly night
! shade.
But no one would have been more
indignant at such a construction o
his will than Mr.. Girard himself, ano
he exhibited his characteristic WIS
dom in avoiding the possibility of {
perversion SO fatal by conGding the
execution of his purpose to those
whose loyalty to God and man was =
guaranty that his own high, noble
benevolence would, under their guar
dianship, forfeit none of its mora
elevation and purity.
l certainly trust that each and every
one of my hearers by their lives NAV
praise the truth of the sentiment O
one of the oldes, Of our English poets
when he says:
81 have ever thought
Nature doth nothing 30 great for gre at men
AS when she pleased to make them lords Of truth
Integrity of life is Fame's best FRIEND
Which nobly beyond death shall crown the end.